Thursday, December 1, 2016

What is The Jeweled Rice?

The hospitable Iranians enjoy giving
parties and treating themselves with colorful and delicious Iranian cuisines and
sweets. Believe it or not, one of the Iranian cuisines is called Morassa Polo
which means the Jeweled Rice! I will tell you what exactly this colorful
Iranian cuisine, served in weddings and New Year ceremonies, is:

The jeweled rice.

The saffron rice is steamed for an hour, layered with roasted chicken
marinated in cinnamon. Sliced almond and pistachios are soaked in cool water to
soften. Barberries, sour cherries, chopped onions and carrots are roasted in
oil and sliced orange peels are sweetened. After the rice and the chicken is
done it is topped with all these colorful ingredients and then it is served. The barberries and
cherries look like shiny ruby stones and the pistachio slices look like emerald
stones placed on the golden saffron rice! Maybe that’s why this cheerful
Iranian cuisine is called The Jeweled Rice.

Tasting the traditional cuisines is a good way to get
acquainted with the soul of the culture in a new destination. While you travel in the
cities of Iran, you can taste different traditional dishes and even learn how
they are done by attending fun and friendly culinary classes held by skillful
Iranian cooks.